366 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. 



greenish reflections ; lower part of abdomen, thighs, vent, lining of the 

 wings, and under tail-coverts, pure white, the exterior vanes of the last 

 spotted with brown black ; sides under the wings very pale ash, with 

 faint ashy brown bars ; upper tail-coverts white, with narrow ashy 

 brown bars, which increase in size, and become darker, up the rump ; 

 the upper part of the inner webs of the primaries white ; bill, legs and 

 feet, of a shining black ; no golden or orange colored spots. The parts 

 not mentioned agreeing with those of the foregoing. 



Another adult male, shot at Egg Harbor, on the 10th of May, was 

 twelve inches in length, and had its cheeks, lores, throat, middle of the 

 breast and belly, as far as the thighs, black ; the long feathers of the 

 sides, at the junction of the wings, also black ; feathers of the crown 

 ash, centered with black, and tipped with white ; back brownish black, 

 plumage broadly tipped with white ; wing-coverts brown ash and black, 

 broadly spotted and tipped with white ; tail white, broadly barred with 

 black ; no golden spots. 



An adult female, shot at Egg Harbor, on the 26th of May, was 

 twelve inches in length ; upper parts olive brown, spotted with black 

 and white, the lo7ig feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, 

 black ; wings crossed with a broad band of white, immediately under 

 their coverts, spreading over their shafts ; secondaries pale olive, edged 

 and tipped with white ; primaries and their coverts, black ; throat and 

 sides of the neck white, spotted with dark olive ; breast and belly, as 

 far as the thighs, black, intermixed with white ; legs and feet deep 

 purplish slate. The black of the lower parts was not so deep as that 

 of the foregoing male. Her eggs were small. 



A young male, shot at Egg Harbor, in the month of October, had 

 whitish spots on a brownish black ground ; crown nearly black, spotted 

 with brownish yellow ; breast, throat and eyebrows, pure white ; the 

 long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, black ; legs and 

 feet lead-colored. 



A young bird in Peale's collection, supposed to be a male of the first 

 year, had its head, neck, and whole upper parts, bro^n ash or dark 

 gray, spotted with white ; breast white, with pale brown ash inter- 

 mixed ; lower part of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts, white ; tail 

 white, with large bars of ashy brown ; lining of the wings white ; the 

 long feathers of the sides, at the junction of the wings, dusky; prima- 

 ries paler than in the adult, but similarly marked with white. It had 

 no golden or orange colored spots. 



I have little doubt that the Black-bellied Plover described by Pen- 

 nant as common at Hudson's Bay, and called there Hawk's-eye, is this 

 species, although authors record it among the synonymes of the Golden 

 Plover, in its spring dress. The hind toe of this species is very small 

 and slender; and in dried specimens it adheres so closely to the tarsus 



